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Luke Hoffman
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Feb 08, 2018

External Access - Microsoft Account Creation

Has anyone seen anything recently where external users cannot create Microsoft accounts with their work email addresses? How in the world is external sharing supposed to work if they cannot do that a...
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Luke Hoffman
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Feb 12, 2018

Yes, but it is required if you want to share the entire site.  This may very well be a good solution for us not perfect, but has still not yet hit our tenant and I have no idea when it will. 

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    Salvatore Biscari
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    Feb 14, 2018

    AFAIK, Secure Links have already been launched for all tenants.

    cc StephenRice

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      StephenRice
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      Feb 14, 2018

      Yes, secure external sharing is 100% deployed now. It will not apply to the sharing of sites though. For those, it will continue to go through the legacy sharing invitations. You can accept those invitations with either an AAD account or an existing MSA and you can create a new MSA as well (just not using a domain that already has an AAD footprint). Thanks,

       

      Stephen Rice

      OneDrive Program Manager II

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        Luke Hoffman
        Iron Contributor
        Feb 14, 2018

        Thanks for the response.  I don't think Microsoft support has a clear understanding of these concepts as they had a really difficult time describing the correct behavior and it was clear they were not sure themselves.  I have verified that secure external sharing is in our tenant as well.  What I found is that in my testing using gmail accounts the invite was getting sent to the spam folder.  That's unfortunate. 

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